Well, what d'you know!?

I sat in the jury pool for the second day yesterday, and wound up getting selected to sit on a jury.

I'm cool with that.

So this is what I'm gonna ask you guys to do. ('Cause I might not be around this website for the next few days.) Would you pass the link for this website around to a bunch of people you know? And would you take it upon yourselves to direct at least a few people at this website and this project.

SEND THEM HERE AND ASK THEM TO GET INVOLVED!

ASK THEM TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND JUMP IN!

'Cause I'll be downtown for the next few days at least.

Tell ya... I sat there as the lawyers questioned the potential jurors, and I heard person after person who, in my opinion, answered their questions disingenuously to get out of serving. (Some were so being transparently difficult it was f*cking laughable.) Now, that's their business. I'm not them so I really can't speak with any certainty to their motives. But I'm a New Yorker, so my bullshit meter is pretty fine-tuned. And I was born at night... but not last night.

Here's the thing.

Like I said yesterday, someone told me a long time ago where self esteem comes from. (See yesterday's update.) So like anyone else, while I'm not entirely thrilled to be spending the first few days of this new theatrical project serving in a civil jury trial, I think my subway ride home yesterday felt a whole lot better than a person who wriggled out of it for whatever reason. I can say that I answered their questions honestly and directly. And that feels good. And if the day ever came when I would need a handful of people to sit in judgment over a civil or criminal matter closer to home, I would hope they would be people who are cool with fulfilling the same obligation.

OKAY!!!!!

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Okay! To the video!!!!!! To the project!!!!

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Click photo to visit the IndieGoGo website

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After 20 years of sharing music and stories in Central Park I'm so, so grateful and jazzed to be right in the middle of something like this!!!! So what d'you say? Feel like creating a Broadway Show?

ARE YOU GONNA BE A PART OF THIS? Are you gonna jump in?
(Or just think it's a really cool and worthwhile project... but just sit on the sidelines.)

Because it feels like the time is right for this to happen! But it ain't gonna happen without YOU and people like you. What am I talkin' about!?

We're gonna fine-tune exactly the kind of fun gigs we do in venues like Merkin Concert Hall and we're gonna do a workshop production of a show we eventually want to move to Broadway! Wouldn't it be cool to feel like a part of something like this? It's a growing circle, friends and artists who are launching this brand new project. Everyone who helps out will be considered an angel, a friend, a "producer", and will be listed in the program. You can be a real part of making this a reality. Got a quick 10-minutes to watch a wonderful little video?

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Here's an Academy Award-winner, an Emmy Award-winner, a man who's won several Tony Awards... and his lovely wife to explain!

Click to watch the video

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SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

You are everything. Just like on "The Hill" in Central Park, none of this happens if you don't show up. The 3 most important things we need from you...

1. A generous donation of real money. (Yeah, like everything else... it's gonna take money to actually make it happen.)

3. We need you to take it upon yourself to be a little Paul Revere-ish... take it upon yourself to spread the word about this project every day to friends and family. Make it your own. We need you to come up with Creative ideas to get the word out about this effort.

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FIND THE EASIEST WAY TO HELP

Your donations are tax-deductible!!! Whatever you decide to give! (So cool.)

Just go to the IndieGoGo website and make a donation with your credit card or debit card...

Click here to visit the site and make a direct donation. INDIE GOGO

THE PLACE TO JOIN THE TEAM!

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Or if you like doin' it "old school" -- just make out a check to:

Fractured Atlas
(And write "David Ippolito" on the memo line.)

Then mail it to:

TABAK
360 East 72nd Street
Suite A 1108
New York, NY 10021

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WHAT YOU GET

Cool stuff -- really cool stuff -- amazingly cool stuff -- ridiculous stuff -- really ridiculous stuff -- f*cking ridiculous stuff...

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You'll see!

I'LL BE SETTING UP THE PAGE WITH A LIST OF ALL THE COOL PEOPLE WHO HELP US OUT. (If you'd like to remain anonymous... just let us know that, too.)

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Here's a photo gallery from last summer. Click on this banner for a tiny example of the fun we had this year in Central Park. (No matter where in the world you're reading this, if you hung out with me you might find your smiling face in this collection!!!)

Click to visit this year's gallery

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If you're new around here, you might wanna make a pot of coffee or pour a glass of wine and browse through The ARCHIVE. Lotsa really fun stuff in there going all the way back to... to.. well, they go a long way back!

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VIDEO TIME

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WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY -- and then shoot me an email to tell me if you think they might become a part of the story.

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Click to watch the very first LIVE performance of this song.

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I'm really enjoying all of your comments about the newest songs, so keep 'em comin'! This was the LIVE debut of this next song in December here in NYC.

CAN'T YOU SEE?

Click to watch the video:

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HIT THIS LINK TO EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS

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THE (entire) DECEMBER CONCERT

For you guys again today... the entire concert... "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is here for you to watch. Go make a pot of coffee. Pour yourself some tea or a nice glass of wine and sit back and watch this thing. Plug in some headphones or some earbuds if you feel like it. You can actually jump around and watch different parts o the show.

We had such a great time again this year in that theater!

(The audio got a little funky during Teresa Reynolds' Christmas song... but I'm do everything I can to fix that sooner than later. Check back.)

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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮